Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido says he plans to return home after his visit to Ecuador.
In this photo provided by Ecuador's Presidential Office, Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno, center right, and his wife Rocio Gonzalez, right, welcome Venezuela's self-declared interim president Juan Guaido, center left, and his wife Fabiana Rosales during a meeting in Salinas, Ecuador. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Guaido is in tour of several South American capitals as part of a campaign to build international pressure on his rival Nicolas Maduro to quit.
QUITO, Ecuador — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday said he will go home after concluding a visit to Ecuador, raising the prospect of a showdown with the government that he is trying to force from power. “I’m announcing my return home from Ecuador,” Guaido said after meeting its president, Lenin Moreno. He also called for protests in Venezuela on Monday and Tuesday, days that coincide with the country’s Carnival season.
Guaido, who declared himself Venezuela’s interim president and is recognized as so by the U.S. and 50 other nations, did not comment on the exact timing of his planned return to Venezuela. His spokesman, Edward Rodriguez, said “it’s possible” that he will return on Monday. “We have little to celebrate and a lot to do,” said Guaido, who recently visited the leaders of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina in a campaign to build pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to resign.The opposition leader said he seeks a “peaceful transition” that will allow his homeland to overcome its political and humanitarian crisis.
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